| commit | ac455c50f4c56f8695ad250a3c6a5968ac3eb5f6 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Zoltan Szabadka <szabadka@google.com> | Mon Nov 17 15:31:00 2014 +0100 |
| committer | Zoltan Szabadka <szabadka@google.com> | Mon Nov 17 15:31:00 2014 +0100 |
| tree | 33a6c96c64c1d21fce8e91df26d5e7625d5316b7 | |
| parent | e1739826c04a9944672b99b98249dda021bdeb36 [diff] |
Improvements to the command-line tool. - Don't read the whole input to memory. - Support reading from stdin and writing to stdout.
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression.
The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in the following internet draft: http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-alakuijala-brotli
Brotli is open-sourced under the Apache License, Version 2.0, see the LICENSE file.